Proverbs 12:8
People are appreciated for talking sense, but those with perverted minds are despised.
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In Context
7The wicked are destroyed, and they're gone, but the family of the good stands firm.
9Better to be a humble man serving himself than a boastful man who has nothing to eat.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:30Consequently, this is the declaration of the Lord: I made a definite promise that your family and your father's family would always serve me as priests. But now the Lord declares: Not anymore! Instead I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me I will treat with contempt.
1 Samuel 16:18One of the servants replied, “I know a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who is good at playing the harp. He is a brave man, a good fighter, well-spoken and handsome, and the Lord is with him.”
1 Samuel 25:17You should know what happened and consider what you should do about it. Disaster is about to strike our master and his whole family, but he's so obnoxious no one can talk sense into him!”
Proverbs 1:26So I'll laugh at you when you're in trouble; I'll mock you when you're in a panic.
Proverbs 5:23They will die because they lack self-control, lost because of their great stupidity.
Daniel 12:2Millions sleeping in the ground in death will awake, some to eternal life, and some to eternal shame and disgrace.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:8
7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand. We are here taught as before ( v. 3 and ch. x. 25, 30 ), 1. That the triumphing of the wicked is short. They may be exalted for a while, but in a little time they are overthrown and are not; their trouble proves their overthrow, and those who made a great show disappear, and their place knows them no more. Turn the wicked, and they are not; they stand in such a slippery place that the least touch of trouble brings them down, like… Read the whole commentary →